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KDE's KOffice Forks Internally As The Calligra Suite

Phoronix: KDE's KOffice Forks Internally As The Calligra Suite

The KDE community has announced the formation of the Calligra Suite, as a "continuation of the KOffice project" to reflect the larger KOffice package rather than just being an office and productivity suite. Calligra is meant to breath new life into the contained KDE programs after an unresolvable dispute by KOffice developers...

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KDE is also in the process of creating a "mobile" version of KDE's core libraries. They feature fewer dependencies but also fewer features by relying on pure Qt wherever possible.
That mobile profile can also be installed on desktop PCs but since it's no longer binary compatible, it won't be the default for desktops.

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That also surprised me a bit. Imagine that... a few more of those rare apps for KDE that don't have a K in the name. I also like the new names they have, except for kexi which is unchanged. They could have called it Data (considering Base is alerady taken).

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I don't know how Gnome Ubuntu packages it, as it probably does not install any KDE libs by default, just because they have kde in the name.

There's nothing stopping you from packaging all these libs with the program. You don't need to be running KDE to run KOffice. You don't need plasma desktop, you don't need the panel, you don't need KWin. You can run it like any other program.

You might need dbus running, but this is used by GNOME too, and is a free desktop standard.

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For sure? If I select koffice on my pure Gnome Ubuntu, it pulls in a heck of a lot (117 to be exact) of packages. Most likely not all of them will be strictly needed, but I bet at least the core ones will have to be there:

kdebase-*, kdegraphics-libs, maybe kdepim-*, ...?

If I just select kwrite, aptitude will still want to install 58 packages...